Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation records, 1915-1916.

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Henry Ford Peace Expedition 1915-1916

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED The purpose of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition was to call a conference of delegates from non-combatant countries during World War I. In the winter of 1915-1916, the Ford Peace Expedition carried a delegation of Americans to Norway, Sweden, and Holland to meet with fellow European pacifists. Henry Ford hosted the "Peace Ship," which served as both a vehicle for travel and for collaboration amongst its passengers. BIOGHIST REQUIRED During the months prio...

Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950

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Educator, peace worker, campaigner for women's rights; active in the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; participant in the Henry Ford Peace Expedition. From the description of Collection, 1911-1950. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 26945072 ...

Sewall, Mary Wright, 1844-1920.

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Oscar II (Ship)

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Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916)

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In 1915, Henry Ford agreed to help the pacifist movement and chartered a ship, Oscar II, to sail to Norway, Denmark and Holland. Its mission was to lobby for peace, promote mediation, gather information, organize meetings, and collect signatures on peace petitions. The Henry Ford Peace Expedition, which grew out of the work of earlier pacifist conferences, helped to form the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation. From the description of Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediati...

Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975

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Journalist, biographer of Fritz Kreisler. From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 658833559 From the description of Louis Lochner papers, 1914-1958. 1914-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984260 ...

Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

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Schwimmer was a Jewish pacifist and writer, born in Hungary. Her application for American citizenship was denied by the Supreme Court in 1929 on the grounds of her pacifist views. Justice Holmes wrote the dissenting opinion. (United States v. Schwimmer; 49 S. Ct. 448) From the description of Correspondence between Rosika Schwimmer and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1930-1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235152187 Public official. From the descr...

Plantiff, Gaston

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